Our game “Pavel Piezo - Trip to the Kite Festival” has just been released for the first target platform. I decided to write up this postmortem without knowing sales numbers and without being able to share details about marketing on different platforms as “the story so far”.

At the Red Fox Clan, we thought it would be fun to pretend that Angry Birds was still an unknown indie game as a template for how you can promote your game. We’re specifically going to write a pitch that would be emailed to reporters online.

Skeletal animation plays an important role in gaming industry. There are many techniques which can be used to optimize skeletal animations to make them run more efficiently in real-time scenes. This article tends to address some of these techniques in two levels. Implementation level and usage level.

Programmers may be unaware that, with the proper approach, debugging problems on their own can save time, and result in valuable self-education. An approach to debugging I call "Follow The Data" can do just that.

Many students and parents believe that if they are interested in a career in games, then the best thing for them to pursue is a degree in “Game Design”, “Game Programming”, or “Game Art and Animation”. I share my recommendations against this thinking.

The annual Game Developer Conference is a great place to meet people in the industry. Here are some tips for people preparing to break into the industry and wanting to socialize with other game developers.

Once you bite the bullet and decide to use a physics engine for your game pieces, you are going to have to come to terms with making them move naturally. Getting a handle on handling forces to make things "turn" can be a psychotic episode in the making. Instead, do what the engineers do in the real world and use a PID control loop.